Subscription Databases:See library staff for user names and passwords.
Modern World History Online:Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
World Book Online: Encyclopedia, reference, and multimedia sources. Good starting point for a general overview.Includes links to reviewed web sites.
The following databases are published by Gale and have similar interfaces and use similar search strategies.You can search each database individually or search them simultaneously by using Gale’s. Click Subject Guide to begin your research.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. This collection includes reference materials funding by the NYSL and those purchased by PHS.
Literature Resource Center: Offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Student Resource Center:Broad database offering resources in literature, cultures, science, history, and geography. Full-text articles from reference works, primary sources, and periodicals.
Free Websites:
Absolute Shakespeare. A resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
Royal Shakespeare Company. Site of one of the foremost theatrical assembles; dedicated to keep the works of Shakespeare alive.
Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock. An introductory resource for anyone who is interested in the nature of Elizabethan anti-Semitism: both in its historical context and, in particular, how it is reflected and embodied in Shakespeare's The Merchant ofVenice.
The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare. (What does this tell you about the potential bias of this site?)
Shakespeare Oxford Society. Dedicated to exploring the Shakespeare authorship question and researching the evidence that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550 – 1604) is the true author of the poems and plays of “William Shakespeare.” (What does this tell you about the potential bias of this site?)
Shakespeare Resource Center. Originally an assignment for a class in technical writing at DePaul University. The editor, J. M. Pressley, wanted to create a site that more or less centralized the most useful links on Shakespeare around the World Wide Web.He has a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts and an M.A. in Writing, both from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He has been the designer, webmaster, and content editor of the Shakespeare Resource Center since its inception in 1997.
Shakespeare.org. A Brief section on Shakespeare’s sexuality.
Trial subscription databases: (trial period ends June 30, 2009)EbscoHost databases Literary Reference Center, Magill On Literature
Shakespeare and his Controversies
PHS High School Library
March 2009
Scope: Guide to materials available in the PHS library, through subscription databases, and through previewed free websites.
Keywords: Use the topic you are researching as your keyword. To narrow your search to a specific aspect, use that term with your topic.For example:
Othello AND racism
Shakespeare AND sexuality
Shakespeare AND Earl of Oxford
Print Resources: Use the Library Catalog to locate print resources in the PHS Library
(click link)
Subscription Databases: See library staff for user names and passwords.
The following databases are published by Gale and have similar interfaces and use similar search strategies.You can search each database individually or search them simultaneously by using Gale’s. Click Subject Guide to begin your research.
Free Websites:
Prepared by Paul Birkby